thoughty
Given to serious thought or reflection; either attentive or pensive.
Adjective
- Given to serious thought or reflection; either attentive or pensive.
- His pouch was now all void and empty, his future years were like to be sour, thoughty, and woe-begone, and himself a cumberworld, unsicker of his scarce and slender livelihood in lickpenny London, forced to beg, steal,...
- [...] "there was no questioning Glenn's ability. He was a very 'thoughty' guy. And he was also a very sly one — for Glenn Miller." - 1980, George Thomas Simon, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra:
- "Yoi, yoi, it's always the other guys," the Ganymedean snorted in disgust. "But SF is the phonetic equivalent of 'as if in Milt Gross dialect, a very thoughty parallel." - 1981, Martin Harry Greenberg, Fantastic lives:
Origin
From Middle English thoughty, thoghty, equivalent to thought + -y. Cognate with Scots thochty, thouchty (“thoughty”), Dutch gedachtig (“thoughty”), German gedächtig (“suspicious”).